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The UAH Non-Theists and Ratio Christi are co-sponsoring a debate on the proposition “Is the Christian Faith Reasonable?” with Dr. David Marshall for the affirmative and Dr. Richard Carrier for the negative. The debate will be held in the Chan Auditorium at the University of Alabama – Huntsville on Saturday, February 9, 2013, time to be announced. The event is free and open to the public.

This weekend I had a conversation with an Atheist at an informal local meetup that upset me and made me angry. The more I think about it, the angrier I got. What was said boiled down to an assertion that Atheists are hate-filled bigots. Funny thing, if a religious person had said it I wouldn’t be angry.

So what was said? It went something like this: (I’ll call the other party “Jack”)

Yesterday embassies in Egypt and Libya attacked. Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was killed. Secretary of State Clinton said, "there is never any justification for violent acts of this kind." Why did this happen? Apparently a few found an amateurish video criticizing Islam and its prophet too much to bear.

I am not sure what would "fix" this, and I suppose no one does and everyone has their own idea. But I am certain that another war won't change anything.

Mormons are a highly disciplined group, known to follow the dictates of the Church hierarchy with little question. Mormons believe that the President of their Church is a prophet that receives direct revelations from God. Direct revelations lead to some startling reversals in Mormon doctrines and practice such as polygamy, though some, including Romney’s paternal grandparents continued to practice it. Another…

The last installment compared Mitt Romney’s statement of faith to Kennedy’s address to the Houston Ministerial Association in 1960. This time, we will examine just a few features of Romney’s Mormon faith.…

This post is the first installment of a three-part series examining the question: Is it fair to question Mitt Romney's Mormonism?

“[T]he kingdom of God... is to be aPOLITICAL INSTITUTION THAT SHALL HOLD SWAY OVER ALL THE EARTH; TO WHICH ALL OTHER GOVERNMENTS WILL BE SUBORDINATE AND BY WHICH THEY WILL BE DOMINATED.”B. H Roberts, The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo, 1900, p. 180 …